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FUTURE OF BUSINESS

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Why Attend The Jam?

Every year the pace of change accelerates, and business owners need to be aware of what’s on the horizon.

Welcome to the Future of Business Forum. Designed to bring insight, information and actions to leaders in business.

Come together in prestigious surroundings, where the history of business in Christchurch seeps from the very walls. The perfect venue to speak honestly and openly about the challenges that face us all as we strive to thrive in our various industries.

Hear from experts who have tackled new ways to succeed in business and come up trumps. Learn from them, question them, then question your peers as you network.

Change is hard. Change is good. Change is why you got into business in the first place.

Join us and be exposed to the brightest minds in business as we move into the future together.

7.30pm

Next Jam

Topic: Future of Leadership

What Our Speakers Think:

BLINDSIDED!

The theme of the presentation will be about how your brain’s wiring undermines your ability to lead and keeps you hooked to your smartphone.

Carl Davidson believes that we’ve inherited a world where we plan too much and think too little. In particular, he believes that we need to think a lot harder about why people behave the way they do. For him, psychology is a kind of superpower that enables us to explain why we see everyone else as either irrational or dim-witted. By working from a better understanding of what motivates human behaviour, Carl believes that we can build better workplaces, design better policies, and navigate that tricky distinction between knowing when to walk away and knowing when to run

David Sewell thinks that leadership today is fundamentally broken and has been since the industrial age when leaders moved to prioritise profit over people in their drive for ever greater efficiencies. A leader’s primary role is to protect the people around them, nothing else, it’s time we rewarded up and coming leaders for doing just that and move on the leaders that can’t or won’t. Only leaders that can create a safe environment where ideas and constructive criticism can thrive could hope to create a happy, engaged, productive and sustainable organisation

Carl Davidson – Chief Social Scientist, Research First Ltd.

Carl Davidson has worked in market and social research for nearly 30 years. For the last decade or so he has been the Chief Social Scientist at Research First Ltd (who, as the Twitter summary puts it, is a company of ‘market researchers, behaviour scientists, strategic thinkers, and good buggers’). Alongside all that practical experience, Carl has written a number of books about research and consultation practice in New Zealand and likes to keep his hand in teaching about research methods wherever he can.

David Sewell – Founder & CEO, Scaling Up NZ

David Sewell sees his purpose as educating leaders into what those personalities are, how to identify them and then give them the tools to deal with the underlying stressors which in turn will bring back those personalities to their happier more productive positive selves.

His research around the science behind leadership, in particular the reasons behind dysfunctional teams, bullying and office politics is at the leading edge of our understanding. Combining the science and how we did things in our ancient ancestors times provides a completely new approach to leadership that everyone connects with when they learn it.

David, having been the victim of managers that ruled through fear and bulling and been privileged to be picked up under the wing of a couple of amazing leaders, has spent years trying to figure out why he has seen more of the earlier and less of the later. He only now is getting to grips with why bullies are bullies and why great leaders are great leaders. Both are driven by the same reward hormones in our brains, the difference is their own leaders, great leaders grow great leaders, managers create managers.